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Microbial ecosytems and interactions
Dynamic diatom-bacteria consortia in synthetic plankton communities 
Y. Deng, M. Mauri, M. Vallet, M. Staudinger, R. J. Allen and G. Pohnert
Appl. Env. Microbiol. (2022)
 
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Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can shift the specialist-generalist balance
C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen* and R. A. Blythe* 
Theoretical Ecology 1-15 (2019)
 
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Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
R. J. Allen and B. Waclaw
Reports on Progress in Physics  82, 016601 (2019)
 
 
 
Oxic-anoxic regime shifts induced by biogeochemical feedbacks in microbial communities
T. Bush, M. Diao, R. J. Allen, R. Sinnige, G. Muyzer and J. Huisman 
Nature Communications 8, 789 (2017)
 
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Assembly of microbial communities in replicate nutrient-cycling model ecosystems follows divergent trajectories, leading to alternate stable states
E. Pagaling, K. Vassileva, C. G. Mills, T. Bush, R. A. Blythe, J. Schwarz-Linek, F. Strathdee, R. J. Allen and A. Free 
Environmental Microbiology 19: 3374–3386 (2017)
 
 
 
Resource spectrum engineering by specialist species can strongly disfavour generalists
C. G. Mills, R. J. Allen and R. A. Blythe (submitted)
  
 
 
Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics
  • ​​​S. Widder, R. J. Allen et al.
ISME Journal 10, 2557-2568 (2016)
  • ​​​​This review article results from a 4-month programme "Understanding Microbial Communities" at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, which I co-organised in August-December 2014.
 
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Redox regime shifts in microbially-mediated biogeochemical cycles
  • T. Bush, T. B. Butler, A. Free and R. J. Allen 
Biogeosciences 12, 3717-3724 (2015)
 
 
 
Competition for space during bacterial colonisation of a surface
  • D. P. Lloyd and R. J. Allen 
J. R. Soc. Interface 12, 20150608 (2015)
 
 
 
Selection history affects the predictability of microbial ecosystem development​​E. Pagaling, F. Strathdee, B. Spears, M. E. Cates, R. J. Allen* and A. Free* 
ISME J. 8, 19-30 (2013) (*=equal contribution)
 
 
 
Oscillating microbial dynamics driven by small populations, limited nutrient supply and high death rates​
​B. S. Khatri, A. Free and R. J. Allen 
J. Theor. Biol. 314, 120-129 (2012)
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